* Posts by Jamie Jones

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Brexit? HP Inc laughs in the face of Brexit! Hard or soft, PC maker claims it's 'no significant risk'

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Re: trying to tell the British public

"Didn't the UK government sort of promise that it would uphold the current border arrangements, and therefore ensuring that it somehow gets sorted is indeed an issue?"
And the UK wouldnt be making a border. We wont be changing the arrangements."

That weasel argument is repeated many times by the ignorant that don't understand the situation.

I don't think you are that stupid. You know full well that if we didn't maintain a border that EU law requires, we'll have *no* trade deal with the EU at all.

"Also, if the Irish border doesn't get sorted, that will likely torpedo any future trade deal with the US, and that was one of the main reasons the Brexiters wanted out of the EU, wasn't it?"
Rubbish. Why would the US care a hoot about Ireland? If they did then we wouldnt have been put to the front of the 'queue' and the EU told to get stuffed.

Why would the US care a hoot about Ireland? The current thinking is that the Democrats see the Good Friday agreement as part of their legacy - it's also very popular with the American Irish.

Still, "why" is not relevent. As "anon" rightly says, the Democrats have already stated there will be no trade deal with the UK if the Good Friday agreement is affected (Google is your friend):

"Congress would torpedo a UK trade deal if Brexit led to a hard border in Ireland, a senior US politician has warned in a blow to Brexiteers.

British politicians should "not think for one minute that there's any comfort for them that if they leave the EU they will quickly have a US-UK trade agreement," Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, said in Dublin on Tuesday (16 April).

"That's just not in the cards if there is any harm done to the Good Friday accords. Don't even think about it," she said.

"This isn't for us an issue or an agreement. It's a value," she added. -- https://euobserver.com/foreign/144688

So, there you go, in your brexit world we'd have no deal with the EU, or the USA.... But at least brexit MEPs will no longer be paid for shitting over everything (oops, no, they'll still get their EU pensions..)

King's College London breached GDPR by sharing list of activist students with cops

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Re: Only monarchy fans allowed, then ?

God is non-binary?

DoH! Secure DNS doesn't make us a villain, Mozilla tells UK broadband providers

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As I posted elsewhere, many ISPS block by either IP address, or "Host:" header. (via DPI)

I know Talk-Talk operates this way. ("Host" header)

Are you with talk-talk?

This makes the whole issue moot - even if there are ISPS that use the obviously weak DNS method, they could switch to DPI (admittedly the equipment costs would be higher, but why should the people who maintain the lists care?), so I wonder what the real reasons for their complaints are..

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Re: Mozilla are only partly right

With the ease of getting VPN's, these ISP blocks are worse than useless. Worse, because they can no longer track someone who does look at illegal sick shit.

But that aside, anything that relies on DNS lookups to block sites is unbelievably weak, it deserves to be broken.

How is it an issue, anyway? Talk-Talk blocks sites by site accessed (DPI on the Host: header)

That at least slighty works. If they have to block, other ISPs should do similar..

Still, with things like eSNI and https everywhere, the government needs to realise that sooner or later they'll have to revert to the traditional way of catching perps.... No more police cuts to finance their vanity projects.

Blackburn ain't big enough for the both of us: Mr Creamy and Mr Whippy at the centre of new ice-cream war

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A perilous talgating..

I've not witnessed such automobile excitment since the OJ chase!

Firm fat-fingered G Suite and deleted its data, so it escalated its support ticket to a lawsuit

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Not sure about g-suite either, but they do have "google takeout" which lets you backup supposedly *ALL* your google related data...

My last google-takeout download compressed to a 5.6GB tar file...

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I've written all sorts of scripts and blocks to disable/remove tracking things on my system, but still, every time I get the (almost constant) "You must review and acknowledge our privacy agreement" popup from google, I'm not convinced:

"Nice try Google, but you still know who I am - don't try and pretend that my simplistic tidyups fool you", I mutter to my screen with a grating sneer.

Oops, did I write that last paragraph out loud? :-)

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Re: They expected Google to keep it after it was deleted?

No. That CNBC article is making an issue over nothing.

The "purchase" section is based on receipts in your *current* gmail inbox. Delete the email, the receipt goes.

As the article itself says:

"But there isn’t an easy way to remove all of this. You can delete all the receipts in your Gmail inbox and archived messages. But, if you’re like me, you might save receipts in Gmail in case you need them later for returns. There is no way to delete them from Purchases without also deleting them from Gmail -- when you click on the “Delete” option in Purchases, it simply guides you back to the Gmail message."

It just seems the person who wrote the email wants it to not exist in "purchases" but still exist in his gmail, despite "purchases" simply being a live summary of gmail receipts.

Amazon: Carbon emissions from our Australian bit barns aren't for public viewing

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Re: Any laws being broken?

DJO, these people you are repying to deny the research, and when evidence is forthcoming, they deny that too.

I admire your patience, but these people will just shout "Fake News" like mindless drones, simply because Trump says China made it up, and Obama said it was real.

Damn, they are so brainwashed to be scared of evil socialist pink commies stealing their guns and "demanding free stuff" (seemingly forgetting the oil industry and farmer subsidies, and the pharmaceutical companies price-fixing), that they have to shoehorn their warped view on politics into every topic.

Everything they don't like is a "leftist conspiracy" - a very insular concept when talking about global matters - seeing as the rest of the world doesn't give two fucks for their partisan tribal cult-like bullshit.

There's no reasoning with a community only slightly less delusional than flat-earthers.

YouTube mystery ban on hacking videos has content creators puzzled

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Re: This is the wrong way around

All good points, but YouTube isn't a public or educational service, it's an ad broker.

If videos mentioning "hacking" scare the advertisers/agents off, they go. It doesn't matter that it may be incorrect, it's what the ignorant advertisers/agents[1] think the ignorant public[2] will perceive.

1 - I'm not calling them generally ignorant, I'm using its orthodox meaning of not knowing something in a particular subject that isn't their speciality. In the context of, say, a security video, an ad-person who doesn't know the subject only needs to hears the word "hacking" to be alarmed. Same for other video subjects the advertiser/agent isn't familiar with.

2 - I am calling them generally ignorant - in the eyes of the advertisers/agents - they generally assume their target is the lowest common denominator.

Here's a great idea: Why don't we hardcode the same private key into all our smart home hubs?

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Re: Unfortunately I am not staggered

No, dropbear is the name of the ssh daemon, and /etc/dropbear is the default config directory.

Now, "dropbear" https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html was written by an Aussie, but that says nothing about the hub.

This major internet routing blunder took A WEEK to fix. Why so long? It was IPv6 – and no one really noticed

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FAIL

Re: What transition?

"Only IPv6 fanbois"

All credibility lost right there.

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Re: What transition?

IPv4 gets hobbled by nat hacks, due to address exhaustion.

IPv6 fixes this.

Your argument against this is that the fix is bad because of potential broken implementations?

As for backwards compatibility, you have dns64, nat64, 6over4, 6in4. How would you get true backwards compatibility on a lower level?

Sure, the protocol could have been designed so that ipv4 routers could still route traffic if the ip6 header was contained in an ip4 header with an ip address of "some ip6 gateway", but:

1) That will not help end systems, only core routers, and as with other things, it's the "last mile" that's the issue. Most routers are already natively IP6.

2) Extra overhead and processing required unnecessarily for Ip6 networks.

3) You are basically just enforcing an always "6in4" - no point. For those routers that require it, just run your ip6 in 6in4 without forcing it where it's not needed.

so that's the network sorted.

For the hosts, how do you make a new Ip protocol with a bigger address range that is compatible with current IP4 hosts?

Ipv6 is already as fully backwards compatible as it can be.

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Cloudflare gave everyone a 30-minute break from a chunk of the internet yesterday: Here's how they did it

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the updates are pushed out to a small group of customers "who tend to be a little bit cheeky with us" and "do naughty things" before it is progressively rolled out to the wider world.

Nice!

Still, if you are a cloudflare customer who likes to be on the bleeding edge, simply do "naughty things"!

Google's reCAPTCHA favors – you guessed it – Google: Duh, only a bot would refuse to sign into the Chocolate Factory

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Re: I'm no bot

There's no intelligence in my posts... artificial or otherwise!

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Re: I'm no bot

John, you're lucky. A few times I've been recaptured on this very website when trying to edit a post with invariably a few links in it. It's a cloudfare thing. On one occasion I had to give up because it refused to believe I was human!

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Re: I despise CRAPTCHA

That's because once it's determined you're human, it throws a few others at you so you help their machine learning.

And the order is randomized too, so it may be the first one that is used for training if subsequent ones determine you are human..

You are doing unpaid work for them!

UK.gov pledges probe into tourists' 'motivations'

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Re: Thus guaranteeing

Good....

And I don't mean that as an insult. - We don't deserve you.

This country is fucked. Half the population are morons, and the whole brexit mess has shown the self-serving politicians are not fit for purpose.

We want to close the borders, and stop freedom of movement, but then expect people to want to come here?

And May wants to try and launch schemes to encourage tourism? If the whole lot of them hadn't made the country so damn uninviting then they wouldn't need to spaff more money on useless projects.

The NHS only exists because of the people at the time - if we had a US style insurance system today, there's no way any politician would try to go single payer - indeed, the tories are slowly privatising the NHS bit by bit.

The UK has the worst rich-poor divide in Europe.

Workers rights? Long holidays?? The only thing that hasn't given us more of the same bad conditions that America has is due to the EU, and now we're fucking that up too, laying outselves to be exploited by the big corporations just like America.

We don't even have decent weather to make up for it.

And for those who say "If you don't like it, leave", I'll ignore the stupidity of that statement and reply that if things continue as expected over the next few years, then after family commitments are sorted, I'm off.

This is no longer a nice place to be, so, yeah.. don't visit. The UK doesn't deserve you.

This weekend you better read those ebooks you bought from Microsoft – because they'll be dead come early July

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... and that's it in a nutshell - those who know about things can remove the DRM. It doesn't affect piracy.

Like with movies you buy that don't let you skip the adverts or the anti-pirating warnings (doh. pirate versions don't show those), it's the legitimate paying customers that suffer.

Treat your customer as a criminal, and don't expect them to respect you.

It's not always the fault of the companies themselves. Subscribe to Netflx? Enjoy your collection of "The (US) office"?

Well, tough, that is going soon. Netflix has lost the rights. We're not even talking new shows, but the back catalogue wil no longer be available, as studios are now opening their own streaming services.

Their greed will stop the legal streaming models successes over piracy. Who's going to subscribe to netflix/amazon/bbc-box/disney+/nbc/sky just to get all the programs? https://www.wired.com/story/netflix-the-office-streaming-wars/

The whole model is a house of cards, and not technically, but due to the short-sighted greed of the big media companies still stuck in the past.

I remember some web site pointing out that (paraphrased) "originally, singers and musicians used to make their modest living performing. It's only due to the invention of recording devices that the silly money came in - and only then because the recording process was so expensive. Those of them wanting to go back to the old times should realise that technology has simply caught up to create a more level playing field"

Nope, I'll never buy anything with some sort of call-back drm on it. If I'm paying money, I expect it to last as long as I want it to.

Bonkers British MPs rant: 5G signals cause cancer

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Re: By-Elections

When all the other MP's just do what's best for themselves, and/or toe the party line, then it makes an MP who is willing to defy the whip and stick to her principles stand out.

This is not a "she likes one of my things so sod everything else" statement, but based on her record.

P.S. Next time you're in Gorseinon, go and ask Gorseinon Rugby Club how they manage to play if they don't have a field.

Hint: It's the big green blob behind her constituency office.... The one with a mast next to it

https://www.google.com/maps/place/17+West+St,+Gorseinon,+Swansea+SA4+4AA/@51.6679845,-4.0434567,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x486ef3906acf617d:0xdafa8edaba0ac3bc!8m2!3d51.6679845!4d-4.041268

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Re: How brainwashed have the majority of you become??

A whole bunch of you registered on this site yesterday to post anti 5G comments.

Either you are all the same person, or this article has been posted on some forum.

In the interests of transparency and fair-play, please tell us which, and if the latter, the address of the site you've come from.

Cheers

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Re: Not this again

A whole bunch of you registered on this site yesterday to post anti 5G comments.

Either you are all the same person, or this article has been posted on some forum.

In the interests of transparency and fair-play, please tell us which, and if the latter, the address of the site you've come from.

Cheers

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Re: By-Elections

She's mine too, and her anti-brexit stance, and the fact she generally gives a shit, is far more important to me than any of this.

Anyway, there's a big mobile mast next to the field behind her constituency office, not that 5G will be coming here anytime soon...

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Greetings from sunny Gower!

" The Gower is well known for its pleasant views across the Bristol Channel and its sandy, family-friendly beaches. Until today, it was not known as a hotbed of Luddite views."

I'm South Gower born and raised, and am only posting here to further our campaign of shutting down the internet by driving you all offline. Why else do you think I always post such bollocks?

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Re: It is hardly surprising that there is a problem with Brexit

.... except the aforementioned Antonia Antoniazzi (so good theh named her twice!) is a huge enemy of brexit, and has been campaigning strongly for a peoples vote for some time...

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Re: Bet they all use smartphones though...

I always use "desktop" sites when on mobile (how ever much some sites try to fight me)

For some reason, "designers" seem to think that todays mobile devices are still just capable of WAP.

And browser sniffing to achieve it just adds the cherry on top of the shitcake.

The Reg site is one of the few web sites to do it correctly...

Your server remote login isn't root:password, right? Cool. You can keep your data. Oh sh... your IoT gear, though?

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Re: Trump is going to be so angry!

plus 1, no returnies!

Hey China, while you're in all our servers, can you fix these support tickets? IBM, HPE, Tata CS, Fujitsu, NTT and their customers pwned

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Re: Huawei

I'd love to know why you thumbed me down when I bloody quoted Trump himself.

"Trump derangement syndrome" is actually very real - it just refers to the opposite group of people than you think it does.

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Re: Huawei

And so many people have said how bad Trump is for not trusting Huawei in telecoms networks. This is precisely why. No matter what you think of him he is right on this.

Absolute bollocks. Trump said he'd lift sanctions on Huawei if he could get a more favourable tariff deal:

TRUMP: Huawei is something that’s very dangerous. You look at what they’ve done from a security standpoint, from a military standpoint, it’s very dangerous. So it’s possible that Huawei even would be included in some kind of a trade deal. If we made a deal, I could imagine Huawei being possibly included in some form, some part of a trade deal.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/23/18637836/trump-huawei-ban-explanation-trade-deal-national-security-risk

He's also presurring other countries to boycott them.

It's nothing to do with security, He's using them as a bargaining chip. Nothing else.

Brexit: Digital border possible for Irish backstop woes, UK MPs told

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Joke

Otherwise anyone can just drive through a border crossing with crates of bootleg goods or migrants in their boot with a strip of masking tape over their number plate and the system would not be able to do much about it.

Don't be so ignorant... Haven't you heard of blockchain ?!!

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Re: This is the sort of thing that we should have been talking about

"Bollocks to Bognor"!

The Eldritch Horror of Date Formatting is visited upon Tesco

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Pssst *2019*

Please stop regulating the dumb tubes, says Internet Society boss

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Re: "A very strange thing for Parliament to do [..]"

Don't forget the required "Please allow 28 days for delivery"!

Go fourth and multi-Pi: Raspberry Pi 4 lands today with quad 1.5GHz Arm Cortex-A72 CPU cores, up to 4GB RAM...

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Re: Worst product launch ever!

Maybe it's just like with that "C by GE" smart bulb:

"Turn it on for 8 secs....

Then off for 2,

On/off, on/off, shake it till you cough

You do the hokey cokey, and you turn it on,

that's when it's all reset!"

Ok, that sounded better in my head.

Kids can be so crurl: Lead dev unchuffed with Google's plan to remake curl in its own image

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Please, put a SOCK in it...

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Re: who showed bob how to embolden

yet...

Imagine being charged to take a lunch break... even if you didn't. Welcome to the world of these electronics assembly line workers

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Re: Americistan??

That's exactly what the people pushing BREXIT want. They want to be able to sell the UK workforce to the American corporations without those pesky EU people "moaning" about workers rights!

Ironically, the people who will be most affected are the ones who voted for this, but it still pisses me off.

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Re: "the cost of which would be automatically taken from their wages"

Americans are (rightly) scared of losing their health insurance, and the companies know it.

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Re: "the cost of which would be automatically taken from their wages"

Great read! Thanks!

The best bit, though, was:

" But at least from then on I didn't have to stop on my bike a few hundred yards up the road to make sure that I arrived consistently later each morning."

The latest FCC plan to boost US broadband? Prevent competition in apartment blocks

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Re: I like the US...

We in the UK are in no position to gloat. And with the ERG wanting to strip our rights to align with American business interests, and our moronic citizens voting for it...

And the tory members prefering a UK break-up than damaging their party (though how they think their party would survive a breakup is beyond me)

Pai is a horrible corporate tool, but I'd rather crappy internet to the things that wll happen to us if brexit isn't stopped.

Must watch: GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity

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Won't somebody think of the OCD counters and checkers?

Also, notice the helpful tip in the video description:

"We recommend counting with Mississippi (1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi, 3 Mississippi, etc.)."

But the biggest mistake was the last line:

"Need assistance? Call the C by GE Customer Service Hotline at 1-844-30C-BYGE (1-844-302-2943), or email help@cbyge.com."

Tech jocks tell Trump: Tariff tiff with China will not achieve what you think it will achieve

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Re: RE: "lower middle class and working class people..."

Exactly. To think Trump cares about the middle and working class is laughable.

After all, with the tax breaks for the rich, he has to fund the shortfall somehow.

We knew it was coming: Bureaucratic cockup triggers '6-month' delay of age verification block on porno in the UK

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Re: "the holdup is due to DCMS having failed to notify the European Commission in time"

Thanks for those links - I hadn't heard of that.

Blimey, why not just make the Friday an extra holiday?

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Re: This was always May's toy

IIRC Mindgeek's estimate of sign-ups in the first month was about half the UK's adult population.

That's what was reported here, but that number is clearly bollocks.

25 million?

I'd guess they won't even make 25 thousand.

As above, so below: El Reg haunts Scaleway's data centre catacombs 26 metres under Paris

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Re: After the end of the cold war...

Global warming, mate.

If Uncle Sam could quit using insecure .zip files to swap info across the 'net, that would be great, says Silicon Ron Wyden

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Re: Use 7-zip .7z with AES256

Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/538/

Samsung reminds rabble to scan smart TVs for viruses – then tries to make them forget

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Dumb screens all the way

Ever since I was a teenager, my dream of an ideal AV system was a huge screen with nothing else, not even speakers.

It wasn't a novel thought - this was the time hi-fi seperates were all the rage - I just couldn't see why it wasn't taken further.

These days, it's even more relevant - TV's come with software thaf is rarely updated, if ever, and services that tend to be defunct after 6 months.

Why bother, when you can get a "smart box" for £30 and even if it's not updated, replace it with a new one after a year. The screen should survive far longer than that!

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It's a bloody TV!

Try telling Mom and Pop that!